Hi A quick google showed that one could possibly use a maven plugin to automatically deploy war files or ant. If you have a fairly large infrastructure eg: 6 Apache clusters(two servers configured active/passive) each with about 10 Tomcats. How would you do the following: * Quickly deploy a new or updated war file * Take a tomcat out of the load balancing configuration on the apache to upgrade/downgrade it and adding it back in. Currenlty we have a script that sets the lbfactor to 0 and then deploys a new application. Currently when deploying a new set of war files we do the following in a script that runs for all our servers. rm -rf /home/admin/application-1.1.war rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/application-1.1.war sleep 20s /etc/init.d/tomcat5 stop rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/work/Catalina/localhost/application-1.1 rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/conf/Catalina/localhost/application-1.1.xml rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/application-1.1 cp /home/admin/application-1.1.war /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start
The idea of the script is to allow tomcat to undeploy the application and then delete the files anyway if it did or did not work. #The file name is the same as the old one to enable the context to stay the same. /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start" I am almost certain there are better ways to do what we are doing and would appreciate any ideas. Regards ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
